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As of Windows 7, Microsoft introduced the concept ofWindows API-sets, a form of DLL redirection.[10][11][12] Dependency Walker has not been updated to handle this layer of indirection gracefully, and when used on Windows 7 and later it will likely show multiple errors. Dependency Walker can still be used for some application level debugging despite this.
As of October 2017 an Open Source C# rewrite of Dependency Walker calledDependencies.exe has been released onGitHub.[13] It does not yet offer the full range of Dependency Walker features, but has been updated to handleWindows API-sets andWinSxS (side-by-side assemblies).
^Page 123, Technology Best Practices, By Robert H. Spencer, Randolph P. Johnston,Dependency Walker is a well-recognized profiling tool that is freeware developed by Steve Miller, a Microsoft developer, who keeps this utility up-to-date with the latest Microsoft operating system releases...
^Tool 'depends' - Depends.exe (1/1) By Steve Miller, 19/11/1997 - microsoft.public.vc.utilities, Google Groups, For starters, there are two separate applications called "depends.exe". One is a console application written byMatt Pietrek for MSJ magazinehttp://www.microsoft.com/msj/ ), the other one is a GUI application I wrote for Microsoft. They both do similar things, but are unrelated (I did not know about Matt's version and I don't believe he knew about mine)....The GUI version, named Dependency Walker, shipped in the Win32 SDK, NT 4.0 Resource Kit, MSDN,...My site contains the complete version of Dependency Walker 1.0...
